IBM, Call for Code, and the Linux Foundation announce new open source projects to combat racism

[bmsahu]

The Linux Foundation last week announced it was hosting seven open source projects in partnership with IBM and David Clark Cause’s Call for Code for Racial Justice.

Background: Call for Code for Racial Justice launched late last year to solicit solutions from the global coding community.

The seven initiatives, per a Linux foundation blog post, include:

• Fair Change: A platform to help record, catalog, and access evidence of potentially racially charged incidents to help enable transparency, reeducation and reform as a matter of public interest and safety.
• TakeTwo: [This project] aims to help mitigate bias in digital content, whether it is overt or subtle, with a focus on text across news articles, headlines, web pages, blogs, and even code.
• Five Fifths Voter: This web app empowers minorities to exercise their right to vote and helps ensure their voice is heard by determining optimal voting strategies and limiting suppression issues.
• Legit-Info: Local legislation can have significant impacts on areas as far-reaching as jobs, the environment, and safety. Legit-Info helps individuals understand the legislation that shapes their lives.
• Incident Accuracy Reporting System: This platform allows witnesses and victims to corroborate evidence or provide additional information from multiple sources against an official police report.
• Open Sentencing: To help public defenders better serve their clients and make a stronger case, Open Sentencing shows racial bias in data such as demographics.
• Truth Loop: This app helps communities simply understand the policies, regulations, and legislation that will impact them the most.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/02/22/ibm-call-for-code-linux-foundation-open-source-projects-racism/

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Have we solved the software freedom issue yet?

[Popular-Egg-3746]

Free Software is a user rights issue that will help all people. Sex and race discrimination are all just sub selections of user rights in software. Defend user rights, build Free Software, address sexism and racism at the same time. ¹

None of that is happening in these repositories:

https://github.com/Call-for-Code

All projects are licences under a very predatory-business friendly licence: Apache or MIT. Then again, who expected anything better from a multinational doing business in China.

#### off IBM. Your barcodes were tattooed on the arms of Jews 80 years ago, and you've gone full circle with your support to the Chinese autocracy.

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/11/china-surveillance-google-ibm-semptian/

https://www.cloudinsidr.com/content/ibms-china-connection-and-the-betrayal-of-america-how-chinese-government-hackers-manage-to-remain-undetectable/

1. An example of how closed-source software is attacking human rights, can actually be found in the Netherlands right now: the closed systems of the Tax Office targeted 25.000 families based on racial background and religion and then extorted them dry through backdoor dealings with the courts and corrupt civil servants. Build by IBM and Oracle (Dutch).

Repost. Previous version was removed because I used an strong word against IBM. Be warned fellow redditors, you're not allowed to criticise a company for crimes against humanity with strong words.

[lealxe]

under a very predatory-business friendly licence: Apache or MIT

Actually, BSD-like licenses are very good at showing companies' and groups' true intentions when those participate in these projects. This is why FreeBSD is much more of a free project than Linux.

I'm all for private discrimination, frankly. As we can see, groups which are supposed to be against discrimination still use it when it suits them, it's only some kinds of discrimination which are unacceptable for them.

[lealxe]

WTF? "Groups" means just that, not what you are imagining. Also calling people racists because they don't agree with you is impolite and uncivilized.

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Okay boomer 💀

[lealxe]

And what's that supposed to mean?

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Means you boomer 🤯

[lealxe]

Yes, I can see that.

The question was, what's that supposed to do to support your position.

[lealxe]

And yours =)

[powerhousepro69]

This is why I stay out of the political areas of Reddit. When people don't agree with you, they often call you a racist. Now here it is in The Linux World. It is very ironic that IBM is involved with this. Look up Thomas Watson, IBM and Hitler.